In Memoriam — A. L. Chapin. 
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alike conservative and powerfully promotive of the best things. 
With an ever deepening interest in the cause of that education 
which is genuinely religious and Christian, he did not withhold 
himself from any sacrifice, whether through the work of the 
college or outside its special function, which might make the 
life of the commonwealth and the nation free, intelligent, 
strong and true. In 1865, during a brief period of physical 
exhaustion, he passed several months in Europe, and again, in 
1883, he visited the old world as member of a committee sent 
by the American Board to the Turkish Mission for the purpose 
of adjusting certain differences between the American churches 
and the missionaries of the Board. 
In the midst of a busy life, Dr. Chapin found little leisure for 
the protracted labor of literary authorship. He gave to the 
press a few occasional sermons, addresses and reviews. In 1878 
an edition of “Wayland’s Political Economy” was issued under 
his supervision, in which the original work was recast and part¬ 
ly rewritten by him. A smaller work, as a text book in the 
same science, more completely his own production, was after¬ 
wards issued by him, which has been adopted as a text book in 
several schools and colleges, and is spoken of with honor. 
Dr. Chapin resigned the presidency of the college at the an¬ 
nual commencement in 1886, his long labor causing him to feel 
the pressure of advancing years. He retained his connection 
with the institution as President Emeritus and Professor of 
Civil Polity for the remainder of his life. Soon after his more 
active services were surrendered, however, it became painfully 
manifest that the long strain of his unsparing devotion to all 
good interests had placed him beyond the probability of recupera¬ 
tion and continued good health. After a short period in the office 
of instruction his physical system suffered serious prostration. 
He still remained amid the scenes of his earlier labors, evincing 
rare interest in all the vital concerns of the college and bf all 
good things far and near, his life mellowed and beautified with 
the rare enrichment as of serene sunset, loved and revered, as 
only the devoted servants of the good of men are, until his life 
on earth passed out, in his beautiful home, into the life which 
